The New York Times has raised the issue of he-said-she-said journalism. It should be discussed here, too, but it’s more complicated than media critics think.
Journalism
Turnbull diagnoses media’s crisis — and his own party’s
Most people these days look to Malcolm Turnbull for enlightenment not on economics but on politics, and that’s where things get interesting.
Journalism, Fairfax’s ‘rivers of gold’ and an inconvenient truth
Journalism is at the heart of Fairfax Media’s plans for the future, CEO Greg Hywood proclaims, and he deserves credit for doing so.
How the internet messes with the game of media and party politics
The problems the media and politicians face run deeper than the disgruntled voters and empowered readers: society is being rewired by the internet.
Is there any benefit in partisan media?
The re-emergence of partisan media outlets in Australia raises the question of what sort of impact they have on democracy, and whether it’s all bad.
Guy Rundle: The lifts and falls (and falls) of an Orwell Prize winner
Disgraced UK columnist Johann Hari has returned his “Orwell Prize”, the highest award for journalism in the country, and published a long personal letter in The Independent, apologising for a string of offences.
The quality journalism project: it’s Mega!
George Megalogenis is a popular man, judging by the plethora of nominations we received to have him involved in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
It’s no game Day, it’s the way of the future
One of the things that seems to hold journalists back from innovating is the pressing need of them to feel they are taken seriously. Margaret Simons rebuts a Mark Day column that says her ideas are kooky.
Media briefs: Age blurs story … journo no-go zones … presidential speeches captured in real time …
In today’s Media Briefs: when a picture is not worth even a few words … The Department of Corrections … Age news judgement under fire and more …
Keating unloads on Fairfax, the IMF and Costello
Paul Keating is deeply unhappy with claims he wants the IMF presidency and has unloaded on a variety of targets.
Innovation in journalism: let the games begin
This is the second episode in a series of articles I am writing on innovation in journalism. The episodes will run each Monday in Crikey until I run out of ideas.
New media v old media: a question of moderation
The question of pre-moderation vs post-moderation of reader comments on a publisher website is a fascinating one. It’s also increasingly integral to modern news outlets, writes Jonathon Oake at blog The Spongeist.
More clicks, more moolah for journos?
USA Today may give bonuses to journalists based on the page views of their stories. Sure, gossip sites like Gawker do it, but is this the direction ‘serious’ journalism outlets should head? Barbara Sehr says no.
Crikey Says: Our kind of sicko
Somewhere in a dingy office in Florida, the heart beat of journalism still pulses softly.
The best journalism ad ever
Check out this brilliant ad for a journalist at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida: “our ideal candidate has also cursed out an editor, had spokespeople hang up on them in anger and threatened to resign at least once…”
Radiation fears drive journos out of Japan, others vow to stay
Australian journalists are abandoning field coverage of the earthquake and tsunami devastation and flying out of Japan, as radiation fears from quake-hit nuclear reactors worsen.
Alarmist journalism: full of sound and fury, sans context and facts
An inherently impatient media is quick to leech onto the loudest and raciest narrative, irrespective of truth. It’s high time the media slowed down and sent some journos off to statistical analysis school, says Mr Denmore.
Simons: ABC journalists have some ‘explaining’ to do
The ABC is trying some new things in how it does journalism. But, I think, not enough.
Data download: lies, damned lies and piracy reports
Illegal downloading will cost the industry over $5 billion by 2016 and “8000 fewer jobs in the core content industries last year”, according to a report in Fairfax papers. But that’s not telling the whole story.
The stories that cost $40,000 to write
While popular opinion indicates that journalism stories are getting shorter, the former editor of the NY Times magazine says it was the indepth, long-form journalism that were the best-read and the most-emailed stories. But who’ll pay for them?
Media briefs: Worst front page ever? … correction of the week … too-dear journalism …
In today’s Media Briefs: Who falls next in the Borders aftermath? … Is pure journalism unaffordable? … Magazines pick up, newspapers struggle. … Newspapers respond to Google One Pass
Rejuvenating journalism in a jaded age: Ballad of a Thin Man
For journalists working on Sundays, it’s just too easy to run a tape over Insiders or Meet the Press or whatever other political iprogram is filling the airwaves, writes Mr Denmore, a journalist for 26 years.
Journalists: now just hyped-up lazy typists
How easy it has become for journalists to fail to mention the source in the headline in order to keep the story juicy, or to rely on an Opposition press release to say a government is ‘under pressure’. Time to fix journalism, one active voice at a time, says Mr Denmore.
Should journalists be trained in mathematics?
A recent article published in the Columbia Journalism Review emphatically argued the importance of journos being trained in maths, particularly statistics. That argument has more than a little currently here, writes Jeremy Sear.
Note to The Australian: Twitter is not a newspaper
When Oz editor Chris Mitchell complains that Julie Posetti didn’t contact him to get his side of the story before tweeting, he completely misses the point.
